The picture now known as Interior of a Great House (c 1830) shows white light surging into an elegant drawing room like an invading force.
But the way in which light surges forward in the central area, pushing back dark shadows to the periphery, sets the picture in a category of its own.
Her Earthsea Quartet - a ferocious masterpiece of a saga, full of wizards and magic, darkness and light, surging waters and scorched lands, desperate loves and losses and raging battles - is one of the great works of fantasy.
Members of the Paddington Survivors Groupp said the number of serious "near misses", in which trains passed through red lights, had surged by 19% to 164 in the year to August.
Pale yellow light surges behind the house, under a leaden patch of sky suggesting that a storm is receding, and thin yellow streaks vibrate in the foliage of a dark poplar rising in darkness.
The pendulums, however, are programmed to move in idiosyncratic ways, so that shadows and light surge across the room and disorient visitors in a captivating and individual manner.
In the video, which shows the moment lightning strikes the train in Tokyo, a bolt of light surges across the early evening sky before touching down on a railway as the train passes.
Part of it has to do with how stagnant the format of e-mail has remained, while the rest of communication and social networking has surged light years ahead, says Susan Etlinger, an analyst at the Altimeter Group, who studies how people use and interact with technology and the Internet.
This particular piler-on lays the blame at "how stagnant the format of email has remained, while the rest of communication and social networking has surged light years ahead".
